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Peter Ware Higgs 2 Darnaway Street— , Edinburgh EH3 6BG Phone: 0131 225 7060 — E-Mail: [email protected]

Date and Place of Birth

29 May 1929 at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumbria, United Kingdom

Childhood

• Birmingham 1930-1941 • Bristol 1941-1946

Secondary Education

• Halesowen Grammar School, Worcestershire 1940-1941 • Cotham Grammar School, Bristol 1941-1946 • City of London School 1946-1947

University Education

• King’s College, University of London 1947-1954

Degrees

• BSc (First Class Honours) in Physics 1950 • MSc 1951 • PhD 1954

Professional Career

• Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Senior Student – King’s College London 1953-1954 1954-1955 • Senior Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh 1955-1956 • ICI Research Fellow, University of London University College 1956-1957 Imperial College 1957- Dec 1958 • Temporary Lectureship in Mathematics, University College Jan 1959-1960 • Lecturer in Mathematical Physics, University of Edinburgh 1960-1970 (On leave University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) (1965-1966) • Reader in Mathematical Physics, University of Edinburgh 1970-1980 Peter Ware Higgs Page 2

(On leave at CERN, Geneva) (Oct-Dec 1976) • Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh 1980-1996 • Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh 1996-

Fellowships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) 1974 • Fellow of the Royal Society, London (FRS) 1983 • Fellow of the Institute Of Physics (FInstP) 1991 • Fellow of King’s College London 1998

Prizes

• Hughes Medal, Royal Society (with T W B Kibble) 1981 • Rutherford Medal, Institute of Physics (with T W B Kibble) 1984 • Scottish Science Award, Saltire Society and Royal Bank of Scotland 1990 • James Scott Prize Lectureship, Royal Society of Edinburgh 1993 (delivered April 1995) • Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics 1997 • High Energy and Particle Physics Prize, European Physical Society 1997 (with R Brout, F Englert) • Wolf Prize in Physics (with R Brout and F Englert) 2004 • Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture and Medal, Stockholm Academy of 2009 Sciences • J J Sakurai Prize, American Physical Society (with R Brout, F 2010 Englert, R Guralnik, C Hagen and T W B Kibble)

Honorary Degrees

• DSc 1997 • DSc University of Edinburgh 1998 • DSc University of Glasgow 2002 • Honorary Fellowship, University of Swansea 2008 • DSc King’s College London 2009 • DSc University College London 2010 Peter Ware Higgs Page 3

Publications

• “Theoretical Determination of Electron Density in Organic Molecules” (with C A Coulson, S L Altmann and N H March) Nature 168 1039 (1951)

• “Perturbation Method for the Calculation of Molecular Vibration Frequencies I” J. Chem. Phys. 21 1131 (1953)

• “A Method for Computing Zero-Point Energies” J. Chem. Phys. 21 1330 (1953)

• “Vibration Spectra of Helical Molecules” Proc. Roy. Soc. A220, 472 (1953)

• “Vibrational Modifications of the Electron Density in Molecular Crystals I” Acta. Cryst. 6 232 (1953)

• “Perturbation Method for the Calculation of Molecular Vibration Frequencies II” J. Chem. Phys. 23 1448 (1955)

• “Perturbation Method for the Calculation of Molecular Vibration Frequencies III” J. Chem. Phys. 23, 1450 (1955).

• “Vibrational Modifications of the Electron Density in Molecular Crystals II” Acta. Cryst. 8 99 (1955)

• “A Method for Calculating Thermal Vibration Amplitudes from Spectroscopic Data” Acta. Cryst. 8 619 (1955)

• “Vacuum Expectation Values as Sums over Histories” Nuovo Cimento (10) 4 1262 (1956)

• “On Four-Dimensional Isobaric Spin Formalisms” Nuclear Physics 4 1262 (1957)

• “Integration of Secondary Constraints in Quantized General Relativity” Phys. Rev. Lett. 1 373 (1958)

• “Integration of Secondary Constraints in Quantized General Relativity” Phys. Rev. Lett. 3 66 (1959)

• “Quadratic Lagrangians and General Relativity” Nuovo Cimento (10) 11 816 (1959)

• “Broken Symmetries, Massless Particles and Gauge Fields” Physics Letters 12 132 (1964)508 (1964)

• “Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown without Massless Bosons” Phys. Rev. 145 1156 (1966)

• “Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking” two lectures at the 14th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, 1973, published in “Phenomenology of Particles at High Energy” 529-552 Academic Press (1974) ISBN 9780121971502

• “Dynamical Symmetries in a Spherical Geometry I” J. Phys. A12 309 (1979)

• “Inventing an Elementary Particle” INFN Eloisatron Project 9th Workshop “Higgs Particles - Physics Issues and Experimental Searches in High Energy Collisions”, Erice, Italy (15-26 Jul 1989). Published in “Higgs Particle(s): Physics Issues and Experimental Searches in High-Energy Collisions” Peter Ware Higgs Page 4

A Ali (ed.) Ettore Majorana International Science Series 50 1-5 Plenum Press (1990) ISBN 9780306435898

• “Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking 25 Years Ago” 28th International School of Subnuclear Physics “Physics up to 200 TeV”, Erice, Italy (Jul 1990). Published in “Physics up to 200 TeV” A Zichichi (ed.) The Subnuclear Series 28 439-444 (1990) ISBN 9780306439353

• Panel Session “Spontaneous Breaking of Symmetry” (with L M Brown, R Brout, T Y Cao, Y Nambu) 3rd International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics “The Rise of the Standard Model” (1992). Published in “The Rise of the Standard Model”, L Hoddesdon, L M Brown, M Riordan, M Dresden (eds.) Cambridge University Press, (1997) ISBN 978052157165

• “SBGT and All That” International Conference on “50 Years of Weak Interactions from the Fermi Theory to the W” Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin USA (29 May - 1 Jun 1984). Published by University of Wisconsin at Madison. Reproduced in AIP. Conf. Proc. 300 159-163 (1994)

• “My Life as a Boson: The Story of The Higgs” Inaugural Conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics “2001 A Spacetime Odyssey” Ann Arbor, Michigan (21-25 May 2001). Published in “2001: A Spacetime Odyssey” M J Duff, J T Liu (eds.) World Scientific (2002) ISBN 9789810248062 and reproduced in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A17S1 86-88 (2002)

• “Prehistory of the Higgs Boson” Comptes Rendus Physique 8 970-972 (2007)